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Imperial Japanese Army: 8 Japanese soldiers killed eight American airmen on Chichi Jima, in the Bonin Islands, and cannibalized four of them. The ninth, and only one to evade capture, was future U.S. President George H. W. Bush: July 1945: Hanaoka incident: Ōdate: Imperial Japanese Army: 418 113 prisoners of war executed; 307 also died
The Akihabara massacre (Japanese: 秋葉原通り魔事件, Hepburn: Akihabara Tōrima Jiken) [a] was an incident of mass murder that took place on 8 June 2008, in the Akihabara shopping quarter in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan.
At least 20 Japanese soldiers raped a young girl before slicing her breasts off after which a Japanese soldier placed her mutilated breasts on his chest to mimic a woman while the other Japanese soldiers laughed. The Japanese then doused the young girl and two other women who were raped to death in gasoline and set them all on fire. [8]
He is shot dead by a police sniper the following morning. The moment that he was shot dead was telecast. This incident is the first example of shooting a criminal to death in Japan. 1971: Kiyoshi Ōkubo: 8: Gunma Prefecture: Serial killer Kiyoshi Ōkubo rapes and murders eight women during 41 days. Ōkubo is sentenced to death in 1973 and is ...
The 1983 Japanese film, Ushimitsu no mura (Village of Doom), was based on the massacre. It stars Masato Furuoya as Tsugio Inumaru, an emotionally distraught young man who goes on a violent killing spree after his tuberculosis keeps him from serving in World War II .
Takuma parked his car in front of the school's east gate, before making his way to the south building, which housed multiple first- and second-year classrooms. [4] [5] The attack began just after 10:10 a.m.; Takuma first climbed through a window before crossing the hallway and entering a second-year classroom, where he stabbed five students to ...
Like Compton, many U.S. officials and scientists argued that a demonstration would sacrifice the shock value of the atomic attack, and the Japanese could deny the atomic bomb was lethal, making the mission less likely to produce surrender. Allied prisoners of war might be moved to the demonstration site and be killed by the bomb. They also ...
The hundred-man killing contest (Japanese: 百人斬り競争, romanized: hyakunin-giri kyōsō, Chinese: 百人斬比賽) was a newspaper account of a contest between Toshiaki Mukai (3 June 1912 – 28 January 1948) and Tsuyoshi Noda (1912 – 28 January 1948), two Japanese Army officers serving during the Japanese invasion of China, over who could kill 100 people the fastest while using a sword.